After spending a couple of days in Vientiane we travelled to Vang Vieng. The journey was not as eventful as the last but I have to say we are getting used to 'random' type transport. For example the bus leaving at 10.30 when it was suppossed to leave at 9, being picked up in one bus then changing to another, booking something that resembles a coach in England and finding that that particular bus doesn't actually exist and infact the bus we will be travelling on again looks like it was built some time in the 50 years. However we got to Vang Vieng (termed the Ibiza of Laos) and quickly booked caving and tubing tour for the next day. Investigated the town which was full of bars selling European food whilst showing European TV shows (Their favourite seemed to be Friends). The tour was great though we visitied 4 caves one of which was full of water so you got into a tube (big rubber ring made out of an old truck tyre) and pulled yourself down a rope. The water in the cave comes from an undergroud lagoon and forms a tributory to the River Nam Song, it was mad! We also found out that during the war people used to live in the dry parts cave to hide from the fighting outside which is fine but in the wet season it completelt closes up and you have to swim underwater to get back into the cave. After lunch we were suppossed to go tubing down the Nam Song river but it was too cold so we chickened out and had a nap instead. Off to Luang Prabang next . . .